Inae Oh
@inaeoh.bsky.social
Senior Editor @ Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/author/inae-oh/
Untreated mental health conditions are the leading cause of preventable pregnancy-related deaths in the US. I worry that the intense speculation over Lindsay Clancy's list of meds—which has been shared widely, by MAHA and even the Boston Globe—will convince newly postpartum moms to avoid help.
Stop sharing Lindsay Clancy's medication list
Prescriptions without medical context can prevent women from seeking help for highly treatable conditions.
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Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
"You only get 18 summers" is corny as hell! But for me, it captures the most cosmic thing about parenting: nostalgia for the present www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What "you only get 18 summers" gets right about parenting
The phrase pisses off some parents. But it captures the most cosmic thing about child-rearing: nostalgia for the present.
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I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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This was spot on from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social back in October, even more so now.
Inae Oh@inaeoh.bsky.social · 9mo ago“Our culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Platner and the bone-headed calls from Dems to forgive a wee bit of racism now and then is very, very good.
Wrote about "the UFC" and it was...........fascinating!!!
Why Trump's cage fight could hurt the UFC
Dana White stood by Trump during Covid and Jan. 6. The White House brawl may dent their alliance.
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"She'll never be elegant, ever." Talking Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Thorstein Veblen's "conspicuous consumption," and why titans of industry are desperate to convince us they have taste.
Why Lauren Sánchez Bezos is storming the gates of the Met Gala
An art historian explains why Sánchez Bezos "will never be elegant."
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Wrote about trauma as the trade of reality TV and why the finger-wagging at ABC rings hollow (sorry!)
The problem with condemning MomTok's Taylor Frankie Paul
Expressing outrage over allegations we all knew about isn't doing the moral work of untangling why we kept watching anyway.
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I'll just add to this by noting that the DEFEND HISTORIC PRINCETON signs have been their own hilarious menace.
An Ivy League town faces bitter battle over affordable housing
New Jersey’s statewide battle over growth, rooted in a once loosely enforced 1970s law against racial segregation, has turned “vicious” in Princeton.
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"Grab em' by the pussy" and Trump's call with the men's hockey team aren't the same. One is sexually violent, the other a lame dig. But I argue here they share a familiar misogyny: That men are owed by women to accept insulting banter. That they are entitled to have their disrespect overlooked.
We now know what Trump's "locker room banter" looks like
The locker room, in the mind of the president, is where misogyny is not only permitted but protected.
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I didn't know much about this "Cory Mills" fellow until @nlanard.bsky.social talked to over a dozen people who personally know the Florida Republican. Now, I can't get enough. The loathing! The gossip! What a mess! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Everybody hates Cory
Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.
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"A powerful blend of menace, deadly incompetence, and total lack of drip." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The power of mocking Trump’s pathetic monsters
It's impossible to ignore the administration's blend of violent repression and overwhelming cringe.
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“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
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What do mirrors reflect back to ICE agents who dress up for war? When they outfit themselves in dramatic camo and hats for jungle warfare in...Minneapolis? I wrote about the inherent theatrics in ICE's tunnel vision of violence and the real identities behind the body armor.
ICE’s theater of war
Camo and hats for jungle combat do not make sense in American cities. But they are key to dressing for the war ICE has imagined.
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The first time it happened, a man was outside the day care recording. “There’s nobody here,” he was saying into the camera on his phone. “Can I help you?” she asked him. The man said he was there because of Nick Shirley’s video. He wanted to see the children. 19thnews.org/2026/01/minn...
At day cares in Minnesota, strangers are showing up at their doors as parents scramble to protect staff
Parents are stepping in to be volunteer teachers or shuttle providers to work to protect an immigrant workforce.
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shared a pull quote but do read the whole thing, these people have done more for the American project than I (if not Adam) can really put into words www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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Wrote about the Spider-Man detail that absolutely crushed me
They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil
Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.
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"The new founders dismissed questions about their immediate video or podcast plans. 'Good writing is really cool,' said Nozlee Samadzadeh, a co-founder.
Gourmet Magazine Is Back. It’s Not Exactly Sanctioned.
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Rose Byrne's win at the Golden Globes is a perfect moment to read our conversation with writer/director Mary Bronstein on "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," one of our favorite films of 2025.
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” invites you to look directly at a woman's rage
Mary Bronstein’s new film is a shot-out-of-a-cannon rejoinder to the message that suffering women should “tough it out.”
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Fantastic conversation w/ @inaeoh.bsky.social from @motherjones.com on neo-royalism and what it means for world politcs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A new theory explains why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers
Neo-royalism challenges us to look beyond a century-old paradigm and see the hierarchical lens through which Trump justifies domination.
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I'm a month into TRETINOIN! And reflecting on a year of ~Mar-a-Lago face~ My central question, which I explore plenty here—what it means to CUT UP YOUR FACE to gain purchase in a cruel administration, a la "mass deportations but make it sexy"—is something I still think about all the time.
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
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"I didn’t put the injection sites on her...I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things."
His Vanity Fair photos of Trumpworld blew up online. We called to talk.
Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump’s team at the White House for Vanity Fair, defends his unvarnished — and extreme — close-ups.
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What started as relief that RFK Jr. did not go shirtless this time quickly curdled into a creeping suspicion that something was deeply wrong. That the "pull-ups" we were witnessing were not, in fact, real. 🙏 to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social for the sharp, much-needed clarity
RFK Jr. did zero pull-ups at the airport
"They count 20, but the number of actual pull-ups done here is zero."
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
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